Beneath the Himalayas — Exploring Design for Cultural Evenness with Nepalese Children

This paper describes a participatory study with children from a Nepalese village in the Himalayan Mountains. The aim of this work is to derive requirements for a mobile app that will allow children in developing rural communities (in countries such as Nepal) to share stories, without the use of English, with children in more developed urban communities (in counties such as the UK).The children, aged 9-11, were asked to draw their local environments as design inputs to a character-based interface for the mobile application. This paper describes how the study was conducted, gathers together the results and then reflects on both the usefulness of the drawn images for design and also the usefulness of the drawing-based design method. The work is novel in its context of place and use and the work draws useful findings for others seeking to do such work in faraway places.

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Dev Raj Lamichhane

Janet C Read

Dan Fitton

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-5

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[0001]University of Central Lancashire

Preston, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.149

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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[1] M. A. BarksdaleC. WatsonE. S. Park 2007 Pen Pal Letter Exchanges: Taking First Steps Toward Developing Cultural Understandings. The Reading Teacher 61 58 68

[2] R.C. Bogdan$ S. K. Biklen 1988 Qualitative research for education: An introduction to theory and methods (3rd ed.) Boston Allyn & Bacon

[3] E. Brewer,M. DemmerB. DuM. HoM. KamS. NedevschiJ. PalR. PatraSuran, S & K. Fall 2005 The case for technology in developing regions Computer 38 6 25 38

[4] M. R. HoT. N. SmythM. KamA. Dearden 2009 Human Computer Interaction For Development: The Past, Present, and Future. Information technology and international development 5 4

[5] R. MahalceaC.W. Leong 2009 Toward communicating simple sentences using pictorial representations Springer Science+Business Media B.V

[6] P.P. PiernotR. M. FelcianoR. StancelJ. MarshM. Yvon 1995 Designing the Penpal: blending hardware and software in a user- interface for children In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’95) New York

[7] J. C. ReadS. J. MacFarlaneC. Casey 2002 Oops! Silly me! Errors in a Handwriting Recognition-based Text entry Interface for Children Nordi Chi 2002 Aarhus, Denmark ACM Press

[8] H. M. Shandomo 2012 Getting to Knew You: Cross-Cultural Pen Pals Expand Children’s World View Childhood Education 85 3 154 159

[9] S. ShulmanI. Seiffge-KrenkeL. Dimitrovsky 1994 The functions of pen pals for adolescents. Journal of Psychology 128 89 100

[10] S. P. WycheT. N. SmythM. ChettyP. M. AokiR. E. Grinter 2010 Deliberate interaction: characterizing technology use in Nairobi, Kenya. Paper presented at Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’10) ACM New York

[11] S. C. YangY. Chen 2006 Techonolgy-enhanced language learning: A case study, Science Direct, Computers in Human Behavior 23 860 879

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